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Magazine Report

Stefano Stramigioli, Incoming EiC RAM

Kimon P. Valavanis, Ending EiC RAMRosalyn Snyder, Editorial Assistant

OUTLINE Fact and Figures Future guidelines IEEE Panel of Editors, New Orleans WWW Submission Conclusions

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Editorial Board

Stefano Stramigioli (EIC-elect) Starting January 1, 2006

Lydia Kavraki (12/31/2006)Howie Choset (12/31/2006)Carlos Balaguer (12/21/2006)Alex Zelinsky (12/31/2006)

Kathryn Jablokow (Penn State) (12/31/2007)Herbert Tanner (U of New Mexico) (12/31/2007)

Frank Park (RAM / T-RO Liaison)Michael Yu Wang (RAM/ T-ASE Liason)

Kostas Kyriakopoulos EURON Representative

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Coming up Issues

Ready for publication Intelligent Transportation Systems March 2005 R&A in European Union June 2005 Industrial Robotics Applications & Sept 2005

Industry-University Cooperation in Europe Visual Servoing Dec 2005 Climbing Robots March

2006

Planned UAVs June 2006 MARS rovers Sept 2006 Automation Issue (to be defined) Dec 2006 Field and Service Robotics Mar 2007 Walking Machines Jun 2007

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RAM ranked 4th among 12 “Robotics” publications in 2003, and 12th among 47 “Automation and Control publications in 2003

RAM ranked 3rd among “Robotics” publications in 2000, 2001, 2002.

Publication

1-T-RA

2- Int’l J Rob. Res

3. J. Autonom. Robots

4. RA Magazine

5. Robotics & Auton. Sys

Impact Factor

2.103

1.207

1.110

1.103

0.618

Ranking

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0.000

0.500

1.000

1.500

2.000

2.500

3.000

RA-M

T-RA

IEEE-ASME TMech (RAS-IES-ASME)

J MEMS (RAS-ASME)

I.F. Trends for RAS Pubs

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IEEE Panel of Editors

RAM will be the first magazine using rapid posting !

Investigating Multimedia attachments for Xplore: especially important for Tutorial articles. Guidelines will be developed

Electronic Copyright form will be connected to the system

90/90 rule for review process

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Future Plans from 2006

New Structure Magazine Current Editorial Page budget is 296 (+64)

p/y Pages for features 56 (+16) p/issue

Invitation to Vote! Multimedia inclusion expecially for

educational dutied.

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Features Plans from 2006

Special Issues Features: 4 (+1) art x 8 pages

1 Extra Non Topical: 1 (+1) art x 8 pages 1 Tutorial Paper: 8 pages + extra media

(possibly in parts) Practitioner corner: 3 pages Educational Department: 1 page Guest article of general interest, possibly

not technical: 4 pages (Industry ?)

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WWW Submission

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WWW Submission

All operations go through the system: Submission Assignments to AEs Reviewers Communication Statistics will be available for PSPB reviews.

Cost $3000 flat rate Very functional and much cheaper than

MC

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Conclusions

Runs mainly on special issues Schedule planned until 2007 New Plan and structure from 2006 Attention to education and tutorials and

call for vote (!) New On-Line submission system Thanks!